THIS is an attempt to make a contribution to a discourse whose terms remain largely subjective because it is used stipulatively. In Nigeria’s post-colonial politics, it will appear that the term is used much in the same sense that “Awoist” is used; that is, mainly in claiming a good pedigree while doing the same politics as the “non-progressive” politicians.

THISDAY’S February 10, 2011 report on the Senate Confirmation meeting on President Jonathan’s choice for ICPC Chairman provides a perspective on legislative decision making on anti-corruption legislation. In that report the reasons for the Senate’s rejection of the President’s nominee were given.

IN this piece I will focus on Government in Africa. In a subsequent piece I will address the implications of the disquisition on government for governance in Africa.

THISDAY Thursday, February 10, 2011 in its Business World featured the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in development and governance, policies and projects.

PAMELA HORN begins the first chapter of her book titled The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant with two quotations one from the Lord Jesus and other from Aristotle.

BOTH Achebe and Soyinka are critical of the pretensions of the post-colonial leaders. Oba S.K Adetona as a participant observer of the process of British colonization addressed the colonial question in class struggle terms, a struggle between pre-colonial rulers and the colonizing power.

Reference to the colonial by Continental Africans as a constraining development condition is now dismissed as an excuse just as reference to legacies of slavery by New World Africans is judged to be escapist. The refrain is “The colonial is long gone, 50 years gone- what have you done since October 1st 1960? What have you done since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?”

AGITATIONS for reform of the Nigeria Police Force are fuelled by obvious deficiencies in the operations of the Police. Concerns with corruption in the conduct of the Force feed anxieties over the security of persons, place and position.

BY every measure of publicized and institutional Abrahamic religiosity, Africa stands out and Nigeria is a leader. This
is one face of Africa and Nigeria, its professed religiosity. The other face is corruption a result of power unrestrained by conscience and fear of God. How can this be? The question is itself its answer.

ELOHO Otobo’s piece titled “Africa’s Three Futures: Which beckons for Nigeria? prompted my positive appreciation in my Vanguard’s Tuesday column of his prognosis titled “Which of the Three is Nigeria’s Future?” In this follow up essay, I contrast the conceptual forecast by Otobo of the best case scenario with the possibilities discovered by international businesses in the Nigerian market.

ELOHO OTOBO, director and deputy head of the UN Peacebuilding Support Office has presented us with three possible futures of Nigeria and of course the future can only be one of the three scenarios or none of the three postulated by Otobo.

ACCORDING to the December 5 NEXT on Sunday, President Goodluck Jonathan approved the sale of the official residences of the presiding officers of the National Assembly.

AFTER going round and round the problem we find ourselves facing the root cause of the problem of democracy in Nigeria, namely: The objective of Nigeria’s constitutional politics.

ON Calvary God effected the completion of the execution of the sentence of death passed on Noah’s generation.

CHAPTER 19 of the Acts, Paul encountered disciples in need of the Ministry of Aquila and Priscilla. The following is Paul’s interrogation of their faith in the Lord: